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April 2017, Love Productions Records launches a new Monday night jazz series in West Harlem at Farafina Cafe & Lounge featuring internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist/guitarist Allan Harris. On April 3rd, opening night at 7 PM, we will be screening a new music video by Harris entitled “Mother’s Love” from his current recording Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better (Black Bar Jukebox Redux), shot entirely in Harlem. The video is dedicated to his mother Yohanna Harris who was a classical pianist and a graduate from the first graduating class of the School of Performing Artists in Manhattan. She was also his inspiration for becoming a musician. This new Monday Night Jazz Series will feature Harris and his trio for four Mondays in April. Harris has announced plans to introduce all original material for the run of his April residency. We will be announcing more artists for May-August soon.
ALLAN HARRIS: Over the past 20 years, Allan Harris has steadily developed his reputation as one of the finest vocalists of his era. Brooklyn-born and Harlem-based, he has forged his sterling credentials through his ten previous albums, covering a broad range of contexts, all netted together within the rich territory of the jazz tradition. In addition to his recordings, he has performed on a worldwide stage that has taken him to prestigious international festivals and halls in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, as well as the 2012 Olympics in London.
Allan Harris' new album, Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better (Black Bar Jukebox Redux) was produced by Grammy® winner Brian Bacchus (Norah Jones & Gregory Porter) and is his most critically acclaimed recording to date. The video’s featured song Mother’s Love has also been been remixed by renowned producer & remixer, Joaquin 'Joe' Claussell of Sacred Rhythm Music and album producer Brian Michel Bacchus, who have been delivering heavy buzz limited edition boutique mixes to the underground dancefloor as SoulFeast for over 15 years (Chico Hamilton, Ayo, Cassandra Wilson, Eliane Elias, Ronny Jordan, RH Factor, Louis Cato, Somi etc). This Allan Harris original gets theSoulFeast treatment even though it has already caught the attention of UK tastemakers like Gilles Peterson and been given a big thumbs up! Says Bacchus, "We decided to do Mother’s Love (aka Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better) because it was already so funky, reminding us of both Gregory Porter's 1960 What? and Pharoah Sander's Journey To The One.
The internationally renowned vocalist, guitarist and composer sums up his personal perspective on music in clear and straightforward terms: “There is nothing that I found that defines and gives credence to my place in this wild and mysterious universe more than this thing called music.”
Allan Harris - Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better (Black Bar Jukebox Redux)
Love Productions Records
(an independent jazz record label and artist management company)
Farafina Cafe & Lounge
1813 Amsterdam Avenue (212) 281-2445
For more information on Allan Harris, please visit Allanharris.com
For more information on the new Monday Night Jazz Series:
Please contact Pat Harris - loveproductionsrecords@gmail.com
www.allanharris.com